The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-12
THINGS

1880 !
now Mabee, formerly OF Glendive, is
looking FOR another iub.-River Press.
Rulla, won the free far.all at Denver a
few DAYS ago in three straight heats in
2:32A, 2;32i, ":3al, and walked under the
wire in each heat, Ed. Connolly, former.
lv of Butte, drove.
A new tow has recently been located
in the Castle mountains, some three or
four miles east Of the town of Castle, and
chris,ened "Robcrson," in honor of the
pioneer miner Of this section, Geo. Rob-
erson.-Husbandman.
The governor has appointed r. S.
Ford, of Choteau county, and Philip
Poindexter, of Beaverhead county, as
delegates to the National Cattle Grow
ers' Association, which meets in Kansas
City, October 31st.
Members of tine Butte bar have form
ulated and are circulating a petition to
President Cleveland, asking the appoint.
ment of Col. Stephen DeWolfe as judge
of the second district, to succeed Judge
Galbraith, whose term of Office will soon
expire.
At Butte en- Thursday last the grand
jury indicted c. A. Clayton for murder
in the first degree. Clayton is the man
who on the 10th of August murdered Y.
C. Maddux near Melrosc, in II dispute
over the right to cut hay OH a certain
tract of government land, also shooting
another man at the samc time. CLAYTON
has since been in Jail here, awaiting
trial, not being admitted to bail.
Another pioneer of Alder gulch has
gone h. his long rest. Mr.. j. L. Me-
Clurg, one Of the early day merchants of
Virginia City, and for the last few years
proprietor of the county hospital died at
his residence in this city on Monday
evening at I o'clock. Montana Lodge
No. 9. A. +. 4 A. NJ, took charge of the
funeral, and the deceased was buried
with the rites and ceremonies of the order
on Wednesday. Deceased was good citi.
zen, and his death is deeply regretted
Madisoniin.
Some empty freight cars ran away
from Anaconda Thursday, and rushed
down grade toward Stuart. When
ascending the grade part of the way to
Stuart, they stopped and commenced
moving back toward Anaconda, collidinH
with a switch engine, which was In pur-
suit, resulting in one car being smashed
to pieces. and the others being more
or less damaged, as well AS the engine.
No one was hurt except an unknown
man who was fund along the track
bruised and dazed and unable to tell his
name.
Says the Inter Mountain: -Charles L.
Davis, of the Alvin Joslin company, has
effected a settlement of the diamond
taxation difficulty by getting the valna-
ton on the display largely reduced,
which, of course, also reduces the
amount of taxes. He then male settle
ment with the county treasurer and
received back the diamond ring which
that official had in custody. The valua.
ton was made by an expert, who, after
j, a close inspection, pronounced the col.
, lection worth much less than the figure
at which they had been assessed, and
they were thereupon taxed upon a valu
alton of $1,000, while the band instru
ments were valued at $500, making 9
$4,000 valuation in all. This, at l.
mills would make the taxes $3.50. It i.
understood that Mr.. Davis intimates hi.
G intention of entering suit to recover tn,
amount exacted from him.
o Col. W. i. Wheeler has returned fion
Townsend, bringing the intelligence tina
the steamer Fern, which made her tria
trip Oh the upper Missouri last week, il
aground on a sand bar about two mile
and a half below Townsend. They la,
> been working for two days before he lief
to get her off, but not having the prope
tackle and implements, were unsucces
ful. Now the proper appliances hav'
been obtained. and the boat will prob
I ably be afloat again in a few days. He
\ trial trip was unfortunate all around
In backing out from the shore, the boa
+ struck a pile of Stag in the river, nea
the bridge piers, and knocked a hole il
her bottom, the water rushing in an,
sinking her in a few feet of water. TIL,
, hole was patched IN and the boat raised
, only to meet with another setback OF
the sand bar. However, she is perfectly
!, sound, and her owners think will event
ually prove a success.-Herald.
In a portion of Lewis and Clarke coun
! ty the unknown horse disease has nearl,
I become epidemic. The Sun River Sui
says: "Vestal & Williams have lost 80
head out of band of400, and j. W. Ack
ley reports a loss of 80 per cent. of hi
herd. The losses have been heavy OF
Smith river valley and in the ~vicinitr
of White Sulphur Springs, and Mr.. vii
liam Mucahy informs us that the diseas
is fast spreading over the Chestnut val
ley range. 1t is almost certain Sun rive
range must soon become afflicted; an,
, yet we can scarcely offer and advice b
way of protection or cure. a council G
them at White Sulphur Springs declde'
that the seat of the disease was bloc,
poisoning and that it was not contagious
We gain but little satisfaction from this
inasmuch as the disease is spreading an,
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